Quotes about Future
Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.
- George Weigel
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
- William James
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
- Ronald Reagan
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
- William Wordsworth
Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.
- Anonymous
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
- Samuel Johnson
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.
- Epicurus
Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.
- Anonymous
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
- Phillips Brooks